Western appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1885-18??, 1887-04-23
Minneapolis.

Mayor and Mrs. Ames celebrated their
silver wedding Thursday.
Mr.. Charles Hamilton, has returned
from a five weeks trip to Hot Springs,
Ark.
Mr.. and Mrs. C.yM. Harper, of Racine,
Wis, are in the city to permanently
reside.
Mrs. Samuel Chancellor, left this week
for an extended visit to her parents, at
Wichita, Kan.
All the talk in society circles, is of the
May Party by the Excelsior Literary
and Social Club.
Mr.. Charles w. Mason, has just pur-
chsed a nice piece of business property
on Bloomington avenue, for 81 900.
Mr.. George Barnett, left last week for
Kansas City, Mo-, where his father had
died Of heart disease. He took tho re-
mains to Cincinnati, O., for intermsnt.
Mr.. John 7. Neal, whose advertise
ment may be found in another column
has some real estate Snaps which our
young men would do well to catch up.
Go to see him about them. -
The elegant invitations for the enter
tainment to be given by the Excelsior
Literary and Social Club, are out, and
society circles are in culver of excite
ment. It is the intention of the club to
excel any former effort in this city.
Great preparations are being made for
the revival meetings shortly to be held
by Rev. Sam Jones. A large stage has
been erected in the Exposition building,
and a grand choir consisting of about
three hundred singers from the different
churches is in active rehearsal for the
meetings.
One Of the fashionable young men of
the city bet his girl he could tell her
what she was thinking of. He thought
she was thinking Of him, but she was
not; she was thinking how much better
her other sffeller" looked in the new
hat he had just bought from ''The
Crystal
He went and got one too,
Go thou and likewise do.
About twenty-five sports quietly
gathered in barn near Sixth avenue
south and Third street, Minneapolis, at
midnight, Tuesday, and witnessed a
rather one-sided fight between Dan
Summers, colored porter at the Nicollet
House billiard parlors, and Charles Kin
ney, another ambitious young colored
man. The men put ontwo-ounce gloves.
Summers was much larger and stronger
than Kinney. He had the best of il
from the start, and in the third round
punished bis man so severely that he
refused to fight.
/ Grant Parish, colored porter en-
ployed in DR.. Goodwin's office in the
third story Of the Syndicate block while
cleaning the outside. of a window Thurs.
day afternoon, lost his balance and fell
1 to the pavement III the alley between
the Grand Opera House and the Syndi-
4 cate building, distance Of about fifty
feet. The few pedestrians who wit
messed the accident rushed to the I'M
] fortunate man, and were surprised to
find him alive. The patrol wagon was
called and Parish was takento St. Barn
abee hospital. DR.. Burton was sum.
uoned, and found the mans injuries to
bs very serious, but not cessarily fatal,
He had evidently struck upon his face,
for nearly all his teeth were knocked
out, his upper jaw badly bruised, and
his lower jaw fractured. There are nc
indications Of serious internal injuries.
Parish is married man, his family re.
siding in East Minneapolis. It has been
d common practice with him to stand on
the window sill and clean windows as he
was doing Thursday whom he had his
! terrible fall ,.'s's.ss